As a courtesy to the actors and fellow audience members, please turn off all cellular phones and pagers. Thank you. - Note inside the Iceman PLAYBILL®

HURLYBURLY is released for the video rental market.

A Bug's Life is released on home video and Spacey fans scramble to get their own Hopper covers. 

Kevin films a movie during the rehearsals for Iceman. First called Hospitality Suite, it's later changed to Convention and then to The Big Kahuna. 

Kevin is NOT named one of People magazine's "Sexiest Men" which outrages many fans. One fan is even moved to write to the magazine.

Kevin is NOT nominated for a Drama Desk Award, yet attends ceremony to present awards to other actors.

Kevin turns 40 years old. Fans give him special gifts to mark the day. 

Fans who attend the earlier performances inform everyone else of Kevin's nightly zig zag pattern leaving the theater. Starts signing autographs to his immediate left, goes down the row to the street, cuts diagonally back towards the barrier on the other side of the door, then goes down that row until he reaches his car. 

Fans stake out the prime spot for autographs after the play each night. Left of the stage door. Next to the trash dumpster.

When my mother and a friend of ours went to the barricade to wait for my sister and I to leave the theater after the play, the security guard told them they should move to the other side if they wanted most of the autographs, and my mom told him that she was instructed to stand next to the trash dumpster and nowhere else, and the guard said "Oh, you're wanting *Kevin's* autograph."

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This was a big surprise to Kevin's fans at Spaceyland: The writer of a magazine (I think it was New York magazine. Some of my scrapbook clippings are mixed up and unlabelled.) decides to go for a different angle when writing about Kevin's Iceman. She decides to tell the world what Kevin's fans thought of him during the London performance of the play and quotes people at Spaceyland who had mentioned seeing the play. 

Opening 
Unusual Suspects by Jennifer Senior

Sad but true: All critical praise sounds monotonously alike. Kevin Spacey's interpretation of Hickey in last year's London production of The Iceman Cometh resulted in the usual round of  synchronized hymning, and it's likely to do the same when the Eugene O'Neill drama opens here, this Thursday at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. So, in the spirit of both the play - which sings the praises of unfamous men - and rhetorical diversity, we present a more eclectic sampling of kudos for Mr. Spacey, gleaned from Spaceyland (http://www.spacey.com), one of the actor's many unofficial Websites:

"In person, he's a medium sort of height (5' 10"?), lovely broad shoulders, of trim physique with ... BIG feet!" - Miss Kubelik   

"He has no butt! Don't tell." - Ariane    

"We know Kevin likes characters which are essential to the action, even if not omnipresent, and Hickey is exactly that." - Sandra

"It was nearly the time for the first interval and no sign of Hickey ... then a warm feeling circulated through the audience, building up to a crescendo  of "yea-yesss." ...That man's charisma, his presence. Kevin took the stage, the theatre  ... he cometh and everyone felt his magnetism." - Spacegirl

"He actually produces real tears." - Zee 

"Kevin actually blew several lines but recovered without missing a beat." 
- Christine  

"Seeing him on stage only confirms it - when it comes to acting, Kevin's a bloody genius." - Weezee    

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Kevin's devoted fans who were lucky enough to see him in person have a disagreement over his height.  Most fans use the following mathematical formula for determining the Spacey height:  my height + shoe heel height + where Kevin's head is in relation to my head in pictures from 1 hour photo place = Official Spacey Height. Kevin's fans discover they have issues concerning their own heights since Official Spacey Height estimates range from 5'4" to nearly 6' tall. One fan decides to go straight to the source and while he signs autographs asks him how tall he is.  He claims 5'11" and asks why she needs to know. She remains calm and innocently says "No reason."

Fans next decide to move on to the color of his eyes. A later argument ensues after someone accuses Kevin of being shy at the stage door. Debate over shy/not shy continues hotly for several days. Some people say he wasn't shy, he was just afraid of his fans and their gold metallic ink craft pens. 

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Kevin and and the cast of Iceman gave a special fundraiser performance of The Iceman Cometh for President Clinton:

Capping a visit to New York on Monday, President and Hillary Rodham Clinton will see the Broadway revival of  "The Iceman Cometh" starring Clinton supporter Kevin Spacey. - The Washington Post

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Driving Mr. Spacey!: The positively untrue life and times of Kevin Spacey,
with a few real facts thrown in for fun.

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